New Perspectives and Methods in Transport and Social Exclusion Research - Hardcover

Graham Currie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780522002 ISBN 13: 9781780522005

Publisher: Emerald Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The book presents findings of a highly successful, international research project exploring links between social exclusion (SE), transport disadvantage (TD) and psychological well being (WB). It outlines previous methods and explains how new methods were developed and applied to assist readers in applying new methods in future research. New insights from results and their policy implications are explored by leading writers in the field. In each section the implications of the approaches and their applicability in other geographic contexts are discussed. New analytical perspectives include measuring the strength of links between SE, WB and TD and the disaggregate analysis of these to specific groups and spatial areas. The research also examines new perspectives in relation to social capital and WB and developing new economic methods to estimate the marginal value of additional travel and its links to SE. The project has numerous publications in diverse fields, however, the material presented here is new. This source brings all the work together into one volume and provides a consolidated set of the methods and outcomes of the project including the unpublished final results.

About this title

About the Author:

Graham Currie - Monash University, Australia

Review:

This text develops and describes new, quantitative methodologies for studying links between transport disadvantage, social exclusion, and well-being and considers insights derived from applying the new methodologies. The 16 contributions presented by Currie (Institute of Transport Studies, Monash U., Australia) draw their research methods from the fields of social policy, social psychology, transportation and behavioral science, transport economics, and geographical sciences, and include discussions of structural equation modeling linking social exclusion, well-being, and transport disadvantage; disaggregate modeling showing how results can be used to explore specific groups and areas; research on social capital influences on well-being; and economic modeling. Policy implications of research findings are also addressed. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1780522002
• ISBN 13: 9781780522005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 342
• Editor: Graham Currie